Bow Bells House is a new 215,000 sq ft office building completed in 2008. The site is located next to Wren's St Mary-Le-Bow at the midpoint of Cheapside, the City of London's grand avenue linking its two greatest monuments: the Bank of England and St Paul's Cathedral. The building set out to enhance the setting of St Mary-Le-Bow and transform its churchyard into an important public space enhancing the pedestrian movement in and around the site. The elevations feature large-scale windows deeply set into flush Portland Stone incorporating projecting £cassettes£ of double skin £clima£ fa£ade in silver aluminium and clear glass. At the upper levels, white glass fins provide shading adding a vertical counter-point to the larger, horizontal elements below.